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Fewer learners fed after feeding tender goes BEE

News: Since the Peninsula School Feeding Association (PSFA) lost a tender by the Department of Education\xe2\x80\x99s National School Nutrition Programme to deliver a school feeding service, two schools are complaining that the service has decreased, and learners are hungry.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

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How to become a murderer in Nyanga

News: Sipho [name changed] is 18 years old and a hardened gangster. He has lived his whole life in Nyanga, the Cape Town township with the highest rate of murder in the country.

Pharie Sefali

Zimbabwean man dies in Langebaan police cells

News: A Zimbabwean family has accused the police of negligence and human rights abuses after 29-year-old Arthur Padzakashamba died in custody in the Langebaan police cells. The family alleges that he was arrested when reporting a domestic violence case against his estranged wife after she had allegedly stabbed him on 6 September 2013.

Tariro Washinyira

Angolans lose refugee status

News: Petro Nzazi (not his real name) and his young brother are refugees from Angola. They have lost their refugee status, and they are now left without any identity documents.

Tariro Washinyira

Taste of my heritage

Opinion: NdinguMambhathane, uTshaya, uMxesibe, uMgxubane, Khandanyawana, uMam\xe2\x80\x99Khuma, Nxele, Bhaca, isizukulwana sika Ntswayibana noBhakaqana.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

Ties that bind

Opinion: For me heritage goes deeper than the colour of my skin. It starts from the very beginning, my birth.

Nwabisa Pondoyi

This story is called…

Opinion: A little north west of the road which runs from Ixopo into the hills of KwaZulu-Natal immortalised by Alan Paton, is a quiet, slow-moving enclave. The Kamberg Valley, just 78 kilometres east of Lesotho, kneels before the Drakensberg mountain range, crimped by the wind and harshness of the rocky land over millions of years to coalesce into a silencing, breathless serenity.

Greg Solik